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Affect
An umbrella term for felt states that have a pleasant or unpleasant quality and some degree of activation, including emotions, moods and momentary feelings. Many researchers describe core affect along two dimensions, valence and arousal. Usage varies between traditions: in some writing affect is a synonym for emotion, in others it names the more basic feeling component underlying both emotion and mood. Affective computing promises to infer emotion as if it were a system metric. The evidence on facial movements and autonomic signals, together with questions of consent, explains why every metric in this artifact is an artistic value. The works the definition rests on, with the level of evidence each was appraised at. (2009). Measures of emotion: A review. doi:10.1080/02699930802204677 Supports the claims that measures tend to reflect dimensions rather than discrete states, converge only modestly, and that there is no gold-standard measure of emotion. Narrative review.Where the site uses it
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